Ammonites on campus

Abstract

"The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is young (50 years) as nations go. But it sits on history as old as the hills, a history whose origins are lost in the mists of time. Like its mother country, the University of Jordan is a toddler, though in academic circles. The June, 1972, graduation exercises celebrated the University's 10th anniversary. But the students walk on a campus which is also as old as the hills. A handful of the University's 3000 plus students recently had the opportunity to dig into those hills to see just how old they might be, or rather to see how long the human race has been living around this corner of the globe. It came about in this way"